Note on Membership: Only the above listed are contributing editors of this wiki With the closure of Wikispaces July 30, 2018, we are porting this wiki to http://writingmatrix.pbworks.com/
Nelba Quintana was on hand as a scholarship winner to help Vance present on the Writingmatrix project at the WorldCALL 2008 conference. You can see pictures, examine the slides, and view the online recording of the presentation via the links given here: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/index.html#080806
Vance presented Writingmatrix in Dubai, April 2008
Writingmatrix: Engaging collaborative writing through social networking - Abstract: This presentation explains aggregation, tagging, and RSS with respect to filtering content online and describes how these were applied in a worldwide collaboration project involving student bloggers tagging their posts writingmatrix and then using Technorati and Del.icio.us to identify each other's posts and explore mutual interests through social bookmarking.
The session is listed at 3:30 Friday March 14 on this document: http://tesolarabia.org/conference/schedule.php
Stevens, Vance, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Saša Sirk, Doris Molero & Carla Arena. (2008). Writingmatrix: Connecting Students with Blogs, Tags, and Social Networking. In Stevens, Vance & Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Co-editors. (2008). Special Feature: Proceedings of the Webheads in Action Online Convergence, 2007. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 4: http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/a7.html
In conjunction with this workshop links to materials have been placed here to tell you:
Note: Now that WiAOC is over (finally!) Vance is going to start individual pages for these topics.
Meanhile I'm making notes here ...
Welcome to WRITINGMATRIX
Coordinator: Vance StevensContributing teachers
Argentina: Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer
Venezuela: Doris Molero
Slovenia: Saša Sirk
With the closure of Wikispaces July 30, 2018, we are porting this wiki to
http://writingmatrix.pbworks.com/
Update 2016 - Rita Zeinstejer is keeping WritingMatrix alive on Paper.li
http://tweetedtimes.com/v/1336
Writingmatrix at Fukuoka, Japan, August 2008
Nelba Quintana was on hand as a scholarship winner to help Vance present on the Writingmatrix project at the WorldCALL 2008 conference. You can see pictures, examine the slides, and view the online recording of the presentation via the links given here:
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/index.html#080806
The paper submitted to the proceeds is available here
http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/WorldCALL2008_proceedings_vancestevens.pdf
or http://tinyurl.com/wmatrix2008proceedings
Vance presented Writingmatrix in Dubai, April 2008
Writingmatrix: Engaging collaborative writing through social networking -
Abstract: This presentation explains aggregation, tagging, and RSS with respect to filtering content online and describes how these were applied in a worldwide collaboration project involving student bloggers tagging their posts writingmatrix and then using Technorati and Del.icio.us to identify each other's posts and explore mutual interests through social bookmarking.
The session is listed at 3:30 Friday March 14 on this document: http://tesolarabia.org/conference/schedule.php
March 2008 Proceeds of WiAOC published in TESL-EJ
Stevens, Vance, Nelba Quintana, Rita Zeinstejer, Saša Sirk, Doris Molero & Carla Arena. (2008). Writingmatrix: Connecting Students with Blogs, Tags, and Social Networking. In Stevens, Vance & Elizabeth Hanson-Smith, Co-editors. (2008). Special Feature: Proceedings of the Webheads in Action Online Convergence, 2007. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 4: http://tesl-ej.org/ej44/a7.html
The publication derived from our working document: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dr22kn2_24dpqdgg&hl=en
Click here to view our K-12 Online Conference
Presentation Portal October 2007
For WiAOC 2007
A Discussion Forum has just been created for us to leave and share queries and achievements at http://www.webheadsinaction.org/node/227.
Let's make it our meeting corner.
Visit Nelba's Page
Rita has developed her space
Saša has developed her space
and Doris's blog is here: http://www.doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com
Visit Vance's Moodle course Writing in a Multiliterate Flat World
http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=46for a formalized but comprehensive description of the project
There is an introduction to the project here (read this first)
Vance has sketched out the project in broad strokes at Vance's Space
Vance and Rita gave a workshop in Abu Dhabi on this topic (the one below) on April 21, 2007
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/index.html#n070421 from China, etc: * http://www.prof2000.pt/users/vstevens/papers/index.html#070421The workshop (2 hours) is on Writing in a flat world: better blogging through social networking.Rita Zeinstejer got up at 3 a.m. to assist from Argentina via Elluminate at http://tinyurl.com/y3ehThe workshop was recorded and is available here:https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/play.jnlp?psid=2007-04-21.0050.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcrIn conjunction with this workshop links to materials have been placed here to tell you:
Note: Now that WiAOC is over (finally!) Vance is going to start individual pages for these topics.
Meanhile I'm making notes here ...
also http://www.vancestevens.com/blogs.htm
For this project, please tag all posts, pictures, etc. writingmatrix
(plus any other terms that describe your post)
More about these first 4 items here: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/blogger_tutorial.htm
Will Richardson’s
- RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators http://www.weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf
- Blog post regarding his presentation "RSS: The New Killer App for Educators" http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2005/01/31#a3087
John Pederson's del.icio.us guide for educators at Google docs seems to have a problem at the moment: http://pedersondesigns.com/2006/11/24/delicious-guide-for-educators-part-1-tools-tagging/
David Muir's Simply Del.icio.us Online Social Bookmarking, or: Tagging for Teaching (links to Multiliteracies course)
http://personal.strath.ac.uk/d.d.muir/Delicious_Guide.pdf
In addition to Nelba Quintana http://englishvirtualcommunity.blogspot.com/ and Rita Zeinstejer http://caeb2007.podomatic.com (both in Argentina and who have spaces here in this wiki) others have expressed interest in the project, among them Doris Molero in Venezuela and Carla Arena and Dennis Oliver from Brazil and Arizona, respectively: http://internationalexchange.blogspot.com/ and Sasha Sirk in Slovenia: http://rostilj.blogspot.com .
Technorati Tag Generator looks like this in CODE
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/writingmatrix" rel="tag">writingmatrix</a>
From http://www.technorati.com/tools/
NEW for JUNE 2007NEW for JUNE 2007
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Put this map on your blog or website using this code:
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